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A female North Atlantic right whale named Bocce appears belly up in a surface active group on Feb. 12 in southern New England waters. Compared to this year's 11 calves, in 2022 there were 15 ...
The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season has been spotted by a boater off South Carolina. Scientists are also tracking several adult whales who may give birth in the coming weeks.
A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction. The whales are North Atlantic ...
Reconstruction of a North Atlantic right whale West Edmonton Mall's North Atlantic right whale bronze statue "Open Sea" In the United States, this species is listed as “endangered” by the NMFS under the Endangered Species Act. [168] It is also listed as "depleted" under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. [169]
The North Atlantic right whale, which can weigh up to 150,000 pounds (68,039 kilograms) and lives off the East Coast, plummeted in population in the 2010s. The critically endangered whales, which are stressed by global warming and vulnerable to ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear, fell to fewer than 360 individuals by the early 2020s.
The right whales are considered to be the 149th and 150th documented cases in the ongoing North Atlantic right whale Unusual Mortality Event (UME), which includes dead, seriously injured or health ...
A female North Atlantic right whale with her calf. During the mating season, which can occur at any time in the North Atlantic, right whales gather into "surface-active groups" made up of as many as 20 males consorting a single female. The female has her belly to the surface while the males stroke her with their flippers or keep her underwater.
The latest annual count of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is good news. But researchers point to deaths recorded in 2024 as worrisome. In the photo, a North Atlantic right ...